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 expres Judgment againt it. But to repreent the Almighty as avenging the Sins of the Guilty on the Innocent, was indecent, if not blaphemous, as it was to repreent him acting againt the firt Principles of natural Jutice, and againt the original Notions of Right and Wrong, which he himelf had implanted in our Minds; by which we were to judge not only in all Matters which were not revealed, but even of the Truth of Revelation itelf. He aid, he knew many held the ame Principles with the Captain on this Head; but he was himelf firmly convinced to the contrary, and would provide in the ame Manner for this poor Infant, as if a legitimate Child had had the Fortune to have been found in the ame Place.’

While the Captain was taking all Opportunities to pres thee and uch like Arguments to remove the little Foundling from Mr. Allworthy’s, of whoe Fondnes for him he began to be jealous, Mrs. Deborah had made a Dicovery, which in its Event threatned at leat to prove more fatal to poor Tommy, than all the Reaonings of the Captain.